David Foster Wallace Quotes

Who Wouldn't Love This Jargon We Dress Common Sense In: "formal Innovation Is No Longer Transformative, Having Been Co-opted By The Forces Of Stabilization And Post-industrial Inertia," Blah, Blah. But This Co-optation Might Actually Be A Good Thing If It Helped Keep Younger Writers From Being Able To Treat Mere Formal Ingenuity As An End In Itself. MTV-type Co-optation Could End Up A Great Prophylactic Against Cleveritis - You Know, The Dreaded Grad-school Syndrome Of Like "Watch Me Use Seventeen Different Points Of View In This Scene Of A Guy Eating A Saltine." The Real Point Of That Shit Is "Like Me Because I'm Clever" - Which Of Course Is Itself Derived From Commercial Art's Axiom About Audience-affection Determining Art's Value.

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